As much as I love to travel and visit family I absolutely HATE leaving my animals. There is just so much to worry about...whether the macaws will behave themselves and stay in their cage ( I have escape artists!), what if there's a fire, what if we lose power and the heat goes out...what if what if what if.... We have 18 exotics in the house and I swear I worry about them more than I do my kid sometimes...LOL

My family and I are leaving tonight to drive downstate for a two day trip and I am...well, trippin' just like I always do when we are leaving all of our babies. I just wanna load them all up and cart them along. Bet our families would LOVE that!

Even though my neighbors have a key and they'll be checking on everyone a couple of times a day and my best friend is coming over each morning to feed and water I still feel utterly guilty and worrisome...

Anyone else have this problem?